The Aesthetics & Logic Behind Art
The Arkansas Arts Council invites artists to join professor and professional artist Robert Bean in a discussion about why judges and panelists aren’t selecting your oil or acrylic paintings. The online event takes place from 10 AM to Noon, Thursday, June 1, and the cost is free. Learn the top mistakes visual artists make in their paintings and what artwork (often) needs to catch the eye of a judge or panelist.
Bean will address questions like: What are some ways to stand out among competitors? What is composition and why does it matter? What is the structure, craftsmanship, and challenge of selected pieces and how can a judge tell?
How do the best visual artists think about the quality of the view experience? What is plagiarism? How does color impact decisions, and how can creativity be infused into paintings, even when it’s realism?
About Robert Bean
Robert Bean has been slinging his own unique brand of visual stories on canvas and paper since the late 1990s. A graduate of the School of Visual Art at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Bean serves as the Department Chair of Painting and Drawing at the Museum School of the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts and is an adjunct instructor of figure drawing at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. He is also a recipient of a 2022 Individual Artist Fellowship Award for graphic novel.
How to Pitch a Movie
Have a great idea for a feature film? Not sure where to start? Join playwright and screenwriter Rachel Lynett for a business workshop on getting your screenwriting idea from idea to production. Learn what TV and film studios want to see in a pitch, how to best represent your ideas, and how to adapt an existing story. Discover how to captivate and garner the attention your work deserves while making connections and building a screenwriting career.
About Rachel Lynett
Rachel Lynett (she/they) is a queer Afro-Latine playwright, producer, and teaching artist. Their plays have been produced all over the country including Orlando Shakes Theatre, Barrington Stage Co., and Florida Studio Theatre. Lynett is also the 2021 recipient of the Yale Drama Prize for their play, Apologies to Lorraine Hansberry (You Too August Wilson).
Lynett was the 2021 recipient of the National Latinx Playwriting Award and the runner-up for the 2022 Miranda Family Voces Latinx Playwriting Competition for their play, Black Mexican. Their play, White People by the Lake, was also a 2022 Blue Ink Award finalist.
They have previously taught at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville; the University of Wisconsin, Madison; and Alfred University. Lynett was recently a staff writer for a Netflix series, a staff writer for The Winchesters, and is working on an upcoming feature with 30K FT Productions. Lynett has pitched TV shows and features to Hulu, FX, and Gunpowder & Sky.
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